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Headlines for 10 November 2003

New York’s currently: de Mont D’Or

 Attack on Riyadh housing complex blamed on Al Qaeda. Related: Al Qaeda link to Brooklyn ice-cream shop?

 Director Jack O’Brien and Kevin Kline to try wresting away the irrepressible Falstaff from the irrepressible Bloom.

 Accused 20th hijacker Moussaoui tests the patience of Federal Judge with scribblings.

 Sasha Frere-Jones on The Strokes’ Room on Fire.

 Art by lunatics.

 Recipes from the history of the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

 ‘He was taking ballet and piano and begging for flute. We’d already given up bedtime stories. He was tired all the time. We had no family life left. And all the wasted time seemed to be at school.’ More New Yorkers are turning to home schooling.

 Battles to develop New York’s best photographers’ film in the Flatiron’s film district.

 We are all eating inside the Meatrix.

 Some easy, some difficult quizzes to test your knowledge of U.S., also A.

 Architectural guidelines emerge for new World Trade Center in recent draft.

 The little orange history of the Penguin paperback

 Medium format photographs by Maia Averett, or, images by Francis Frith.

 A collection of sestinas. Related: Links for those with a fetish for baldness.

 Fall is bustin’ loose at You Grow Girl, and with it are harvest-time recipes and pumpkin pie, reinvented.

 Moscow metro considers a ban on public displays of affection.

A huge hatful of thanks for last week’s four Amazon donors that we just found out about

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